The 50 best-selling albums of all time

The band's greatest hits album, released in 1976, has surpassed Michael Jackson's seminal 1982 album "Thriller" to take the top spot on the RIAA's list of the highest-selling albums of all time in the US, the Associated Press reports.

Here we compiled the RIAA's data for the best-selling albums in US history (measured in "certified units" sold), and some of the other names that appear in the top 50 are unexpected.